Kit Hesketh-Harvey
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Kit Hesketh-Harvey (born 1957 in Nyasaland, now Malawi) is a British comic performer and scriptwriter.
He was educated as a chorister at Canterbury and Clare College, Cambridge and then moved on to Tonbridge Public School in Kent before later becoming a member of the Cambridge Footlights.
He wrote the script for Merchant Ivory's Maurice (1987), and has worked on the Vicar of Dibley series for the BBC.
He is one part of the musical comedy act Kit and The Widow which has had a number of West End and Broadway theatre runs and tours internationally. He starred in the 1996 production of Salad Days at the Vaudeville Theatre. He makes occasional appearances on the many BBC Radio 4 series requiring witty panellists such as Just a Minute and Quote Unquote. He was also a panellist on the unbroadcast pilot episode of QI.
He adapted English version of Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène (2006) directed by Laurent Pelly for English National Opera. He translated The Bartered Bride for Charles Mackerras at the Royal Opera House, and has translated many other operas. His plays include Five O'Clock Angel at the Hampstead Theatre.
He is married to the actress Catherine Rabett and they have two children. He is the brother of novelist and journalist Sarah Sands.
